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"Jinbe abstained!
649: Dance of the Bream and Flounder
Cover story: Skypiea. This year's blessings and God's contentment. God and the Village Chief."

Human pirates are released and Neptune says that the remnants of the NFP can live on the main island as manual laborers.
Fishman district is blocked off. The Officers, Decken, and Hody are imprisoned. Wadatsumi is effectively deported and taken to a far away part of the sea by the Kraken.
Jinbe refuses but he says to wait, because he has to remain faithful to his duty. He says to come again another time and try inviting him once more.
The party on the island begins.

Robin sneaks away from the party and goes to see Neptune.
Robin asks about Joy Boy. He was a real person who lived in the void century, and that apology he wrote was aimed at the Mermaid Princess at the time.
According to the legend passed down by the royal line, it seems that someone would someday appear to fulfill the promise in lieu of Joy Boy. There was the promise to protect Noah until that day finally came.
On Sky Island, Robin knew the location of Poseidon. Poseidon was on Fishman Island, because Poseidon IS Shirahoshi, the mermaid princess.

So Jinbe doesn't exactly say no and we learn about Joy Boy and Poseidon.

A soul that cannot be saved drifts and disappears,
In the instant it vanishes, it shines faintly,
Now, it creates a night with a full moon.

I loved Zoro's definition of a hero. And it seems like while Jinbe isn't gonna join the Straw Hats straight away, he will be joining later on after he takes are of whatever he has to do. Seeing the citizen's prepare for the banquet and everyone enjoy it was really nice. Anyway, the biggest reveal was we learn who Joy Boy was and that the ancient weapon "Poseidon" was actually the former mermaid princess and now Shirahoshi has inherited that name. Gonna be interesting to see where that leads. Quite a nice chapter.

Also, I honestly loved the lil' Den Den Mushi with Neptune's beard.

A soul that cannot be saved drifts and disappears,
In the instant it vanishes, it shines faintly,
Now, it creates a night with a full moon.

You know what? Now that I think about it, the first end-of arc enemies they faced were the Fishman Pirates, and the first end-of-arc enemies they faced after the 2 years of training were another faction of the Fishman Pirates. Anyway, I'm thinking of how cool it would be if that Kraken stayed with the Straw Hats and went with them into the New World.

Jinbe didn't even say no. This is like Nami who didn't officially join until Arlong was taken care of, or Brook who joined after he got his shadow back. So people who are saying "Ha, Jinbe didn't join! I told ya'll!" there isn't anything even pointing to it being over. He even said he'll be back, so ask then. Vivi only told them no. Jinbe just said not right now, but later.

Jinbe didn't even say no. This is like Nami who didn't officially join until Arlong was taken care of, or Brook who joined after he got his shadow back. So people who are saying "Ha, Jinbe didn't join! I told ya'll!" there isn't anything even pointing to it being over. He even said he'll be back, so ask then. Vivi only told them no. Jinbe just said not right now, but later.

I assume Jinbei won't be joining till maybe the second or third arc of the New World. By than either Mermaid Princess will already be apart of the crew or some other crazy guy or girl will have joined in the New World. I think Mermaid Princess has a chance of joining, while shes freakin big I assume we have a way for her to shrink down some how. She has a power that should be guarded by a powerful crew, Hodi and his crew were just practice for now, imagine if an even more powerful villain came and tried to take her for there own use? Luffy and his crew should protect her, just my opinion though. Jinbei not joining is fine by me, I was already getting used to the idea but in the end I think for now its best. We need to have Luffy's bounty get higher than his and for him and the Monster Trio to be twice as strong. Not only that, by the time Jinbei joins the crew should have a lot of eperience of the New World.

Ask for the rest of the chapter, I love when we get to the partys after the big battles, they are a lot of fun. I love how much Luffy and Zoro are a like, both of them really do think the same, one of my favorite friendships in this crew. I don't know if Sanji will be able to make it past this arc, at least hes finally happy some what.

Last edited by BlueDragonfangirl; 8th December 2011 at 7:37 AM.

A close family member of mine died today, I put this in my sign as respect for him

She didn't officially "join" until after the Enies Lobby arc when Luffy's bounty was 100 million beli.
I'm assuming that when Jinbe does join, the Monster Trio's bounties will be higher if not a closer difference than what it is now with Luffy's being higher than Jinbe.

Typical future Straw Hat refusing to join just yet. His duty will not be taken care of off panel and without the SHs. This could be dealing with his inevitable dream that people want from him so much. Chopper, Nami, Sanji, Brook, Franky all refused to join. And no way in the world is Shirahoshi joining. She is not swimming along side Sunny the rest of the series, and her ability will not grow on the same scale as everyone else.

I'm pretty certain Jinbe is joining before they enter the new world. As a matter of fact I don't think the new world is the next stop. Considering the end all goal of this arc was to get a seat in the reverie and migrate the FI population to the surface I think Marijois could be coming up. Doesn't have to be all out war or even a trip to the new Marine HQ. But there are a lot of lose ends since pre time skip Saboady that would be able to be tied up nicely.

There's a lot of points against Shirahoshi joining, mostly being Jinbe joining. There's also: Her size, her inability to move on land, inability to fight without access to the sea, inability to defend herself, constant reliance on others, no possible job she could fill, Noah needing her to have the Sea Kings pull it, Luffy not even considering asking her, and some more I'm probably forgetting. Jinbe fits on the ship, can fend for himself, can be the helmsman, has a sad past, and dream is to show humans and fishmen can get along/something involving his non-fulfilled duty, has fought with the crew against a peon like the other male members, and has basically said yes to joining. There's just too much against her.

Three ancient weapons with the names of gods.
Pluton, Uranus, Poseidon
One is Shirahoshi.
If this was known, everyone would go after her, right?
Robin and Neptune's conversation
The one listening to it was Caribou

Luffy is told of the happenings of the past two years by Jinbe
Akainu and Aokiji had a fight
Sengoku pushed for Aokiji to be the next Fleet Admiral, but the head honchos in the government wanted to install Akainu
For that reason, Akainu and Aokji (who isn't usually the type to want to fight) had a duel
After a 10 day long struggle to the death,
Akainu won. Sakazuki is the new fleet admiral.
Akainu showed sympathy for Aokiji and didn't kill him, but Aokiji left the Marines.
His whereabouts are unknown. He quit the marines."

Why is the government getting rid of so many people that actually have a good, non-extremist sense of justice? Oh right, sake of the plot and to make the story exciting.

It would be an interesting part of the plot if Aokiji replaced Akainu as the Fleet Admiral after this whole "Blackbeard" mess blows over and I'm thinking that Luffy will run into Big Mom while he's searching for Swampy Caribou in the city. Can't wait for next week.

A decent chapter. Hody and his co got all old which was funny and fitting punishment. Kinda annoyed that Luffy ignored Jinbei's explanation near the end. Blackbeard is already a Yonkou and apparently his crew mates have powers as well now. That will be really annoying. I wonder if Pluton and Uranus are people as well or are they weapons. Pluton had a blueprint so I think it was a weapon, in fact I think Pluton might be the Thousand Sunny because Franky knew the layout of the blueprint for Pluton.

Caribou being launched away was stupid, I hope Oda doesn't waste too much time getting the Straw Hats out of Fisherman Isle. I want to see the new world before 2012 but its likely not going to happen.

Big Mam vs the Straw Hats might be interesting but I don't think it will happen this early and underwater too.

So the third ancient weapon alongside Pluton and Poseidon is Uranus. Caribou learning about Shirahoshi will probably lead to the rest of the world learning that she's Poseidon. Anyway, Akuinu becoming the Fleet Admiral and Blackbeard on the hunt for strong DF abilities to steal were both surprising pieces of news. Gonna be interesting to see what role Aokiju will have now. Loved how Chopper believed he was a target for Blackbeard and what he though a captain was. Seeing the New Fishman pirates aged was weird, but I like how the Tamatebako was brought back into the plot. Seeing what King Neptune said about Royal Treasures. I wonder if that's a hint that the other treasures will have unique powers also. Looks like Big Mom will be making an appearance soon. Great chapter.

A soul that cannot be saved drifts and disappears,
In the instant it vanishes, it shines faintly,
Now, it creates a night with a full moon.

Pluton is a ship isn't it??
Idk but I love that Nami drinks idk why i always thought she didn't
Blackbread as one of the four emperors did in fact piss me off 'that son of a *****' i literally said that hahaha
hahaha Zoro's and Luffy's reaction was priceless when Nami was asking about the stolen treasure
Hodi and his gang's after effect was quite fitting
I wonder what it is about Big Mama and candy??
maybe she won't protect fishmen island anymore and it'll become straw hat territory~